 They did not hesitate to send members of the respective professions to the various congresses held in Bessarabia throughout 1917, and became very influential.Ghibu and George Tofan were part of a group of Transylvanian and Bukovinian intellectuals which arrived in Bessarabia in the wake of the February Revolution to help organize schools in Romanian, to print books and newspapers, and to help the Bessarabians reorganize political and cultural life.Intellectuals from Bukovina, Transylvania, and the Romanian Old Kingdom fleeing the war to Bessarabia, helped with the printing of "Cuvânt moldovenesc", started various language, history, culture, and sciences courses, and set up a People's University () in Chişinău.